What exactly are you supposed to do with a kernel core dump under a closed source OS?
- Not much if running at home, but commercial customers get much, much, better support than home-jo can imagine, even from the Great (Ms)atan. They pay thousands of $K, per year, per node for the privilige. This includes 'send us the kernel dump and we'll tell you what happened. If it is in the OS or hardware we'll fix it. If not we'll tell you exactly what the app did what.' HP have made a kernel change because of a defect my team discovered. We paid 70k$ per year for 40 nodes. It's not perfect support, but you got generally good service.
Throw a printout of it into a bonfire to propitiate the Windows Demons?
- Nah, too inflamable, you wind the DLT tape of it round a stick like entrails.
Send it to Microsoft and wait for their rigorous QA process to leap into action and send you a fixed kernel?
- Again, they might if you are Motorola, HP, etc. Or a big OEM like Dell and want a fix so you can use cheap and nasty motherboards.
I can't imagine trying to debug it yourself without being able to get a backtrace and look at the problem source code.
- In your office, Take an HPUX crashdump, use Xdev and extract the panic message, even if a system halt occured. I Did it 3 weeks ago. It let me confirm that a series of panic's (HPUX saves multiple dumps) all had a common cause.
Does Microsoft even leave a symbol table of internal function names in the NT kernel?
- Yeah, NSAkey NSAlock NSAsniff.. I can see it now.
What exactly do you do with a Kernel Debugger in Solaris if you can't see anything more than what a disassembler will tell you about the kernel being debugged?
- You can see the exact state. And a decent support contract will give you a working system and a fix.
- Look, This is of far more use to industry, So that when the web server panics for some unknown reason, they want to know -exactly why- so they can stop it happening again, they can afford to pay for the analysis. - This is actually quite important for the future of Linux in the commercial sector. I would bet the HP, Sun, MS et.al have used this as an small argument when 'competing' against Linus for large and prestigue orders.
Decent speech recognition, would be my ideal data-entry solution for PDA's.
Having a full keyboard would be nice second choice, but the way I use my pilot it would only make a small difference (graffiti is good enough). I tend to load large datasets to my pilot from my PC for on-the-road reference, and I don't have a need to enter lots of info when away from my desktop. But I would like to enter data n awkard situations, on trains, busses, while walking round town and especially in bars/clubs. A keyboard, no matter how cool and well designed, is probably never going to be convenient in those situations.
For my last year at Reading Uni.Prof. Warwick was my head of Department. And a very nice bloke he is too.
Lots of cool things come out of that department (I just wish I was one of them) and He does a lot to promote the more forward-looking side of Engineering and Sience in general.
So for all of you looseres making sarky comments, consider the fact that this guy pushes the limits far more than you ever have. And is not afraid to bring this sort of research into the public arena for all to see.
Oh yeah, he also is the reason why I have a degree in Cybernetics, instead of 'yet another computer science' degree.
At my old site we used a name like: [2 char site id][1 char subnet][low order IP] Therefore my old system was 'bah123', e.g. Basingstoke, subnet h, 123, or [x].[x].8.123
With a lot of machines this worked really well, you can always get the IP from the name, and the names are short and reasonably easy to remember/infer, better than 'xxfgsun5y3ffghy', etc.. It looks professional enough to keep the Pointy Heads happy.
Ok, it's still boring, but at least it works.
Of course at my new company we use cartoon characters, my hpux box is called 'druuna'. Cludos to anyone who gets this, and understands why I smile everytime I play with her..
People in the advertising trade -really- hate this kind of talk. Especially in the States, where it probably comes under the heading of 'Un-American activities'.
It's an excellent way to start a flame war with admen, make a statement like 'Advertising only works on the gullible and stupid', cover yer ass and stand well back.
Actually I brought a packed of grape-nuts the last time I was in the States, because the advert reminded me how good they are.
There is a nice little personal-proxy utility from Siemens, it's free for personal use, and does a good job of cutting the ads completely. It can also remove referring-page info, etc.. and is very easy to setup and use, windows only unfortunately.
Widescreen TV is 'super lekker' (jolly good, in Dutch), but what I would like is widescreen monitors (or maybe tallscreen?)
I heard talk about this a few years back, but have never seen anything like this since then except in a publishing house (on SGI I think). At the moment my only option to get documents up side by side is to run at eye crunching resolutions, or get a twin-head setup and buy a new desk.
Actually what I really want is a 180 degree wraparound high-res monitor, with me in a delux swivel chair in the middle. So I can play at being the badguy from a Bond movie, 'So Mr. Gates, you thought you could defeat me! MuHaHaHa..'
If they're travelling under command of UN/NATO then no, frequencies for joint operations are well defined, and french equip is designed for it. If on their own, they may have a problem, better fill the Greenpeace ships with Ibooks.
Well, yes/no The French have always been awkward abour RF, maritime radio is a good example. Try talking to French coastguard in anything other than French and see what happens (to their credit, in a mayday their English suddenly becomes perfect.) It used to be illegal to even transmit in any other language than French. I worked on a Radio system that had to work cross-channel (used in the tunnel), there were several major frequency allocation problems. And some fundamental differences, for instance in dual channel full duplex they use an inverted scheme, relative with the rest of Europe. Also they have not adopted the open(ish) TETRA standard (used for trunked radio services, fire/police/airport control, etc..) Instead they have Tetrapol, designed to protect Matra from competition from Nickia/Motorola/Ericcson etc.. Basically it is all controlled by the French PTT, which is a vast, bloated, protectionist, beaurocratic Dinasaur. With it's brains in it's tail. To their credit, they did adopt GSM, It probably slipped through when they were looking the other way or something.
I once saw a program about standards evolution that talked about track gauges. They reconed that you can trace the standard European gauge back to the roman standard for chariots(enforced by roman law). Basically it worked, so nobody ever changed it, and every new technology simply inherited it to ensure some compatibility. Sounds like ASCII to me.. if it aint broke, don't fix it. Unless you're M$oft.
If your only concept of a tripwire is something that emails or pages the admin then these critisims are true. But trapdors can be more proactive than that, how about, 'more than 128 ports scanned - open the silo doors;-)' or 'record IP and email FBI'. An old Vax I worked on locked any account which exceeded a certain number of failed logins. Easy to DOS but hard to get at the bosses email by just spotting bits of his password..
I -like- the idea of a passport service to save me lots of dumb-ass repetative typing. But this is a function for a non-profit org . There is no bloody way I will give that info to MS or it's ilk. They simply cannot be trusted for the full term, whatever promises they will make today.
Years ago I wrote an Aegis (remember that anyone;) utility to count which keys I pressed and when.. Was shocked to discover that 1/5th were never pressed at all. Anyone ever tried this with a modern U*nix or Windoze box. I bet even the 'I have 1024 key bindings and use em all' brigade actually don't use the whole keyboard. EeeZee
Years ago I wrote an Aegis (remember that anyone;) utility to count which keys I pressed and when.. Was shocked to discover that 1/5th were never pressed at all. Anyone ever tried this with a modern U*nix or Windoze box. I bet even the 'I have 1024 key bindings and use em all' brigade actually don't use the whole keyboard.
I is the best, but really hard (and counter-intuitive) but looks a bit dated and (still) has bugs, also I think it has problems on very high end machines. II is still good, but a bit simplistic (they overcompensated). But III should be out now, or very soon.. see: http://www.demon.lspace.org/games/discworld/inde x.html
This and 'The Bat' (email client) are the only two bits of windoze S/W I've ever really wished I could get on HPUX..
On another tack, it's easy to change names in the UK, I wonder if I could get paid (per day) to changed my name to 'Eat at MacDonalds', think about it... there are a lot of 'hits' for a name, and admen like 'hits'.
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What exactly are you supposed to do with a kernel core dump under a closed source OS?
- Not much if running at home, but commercial customers get much, much, better support than home-jo can imagine, even from the Great (Ms)atan. They pay thousands of $K, per year, per node for the privilige. This includes 'send us the kernel dump and we'll tell you what happened. If it is in the OS or hardware we'll fix it. If not we'll tell you exactly what the app did what.'
HP have made a kernel change because of a defect my team discovered. We paid 70k$ per year for 40 nodes. It's not perfect support, but you got generally good service.
Throw a printout of it into a bonfire to propitiate the Windows Demons?
- Nah, too inflamable, you wind the DLT tape of it round a stick like entrails.
Send it to Microsoft and wait for their rigorous QA process to leap into action and send you a fixed kernel?
- Again, they might if you are Motorola, HP, etc. Or a big OEM like Dell and want a fix so you can use cheap and nasty motherboards.
I can't imagine trying to debug it yourself without being able to get a backtrace and look at the problem source code.
- In your office, Take an HPUX crashdump, use Xdev and extract the panic message, even if a system halt occured. I Did it 3 weeks ago. It let me confirm that a series of panic's (HPUX saves multiple dumps) all had a common cause.
Does Microsoft even leave a symbol table of internal function names in the NT kernel?
- Yeah, NSAkey NSAlock NSAsniff.. I can see it now.
What exactly do you do with a Kernel Debugger in Solaris if you can't see anything more than what a disassembler will tell you about the kernel being debugged?
- You can see the exact state. And a decent support contract will give you a working system and a fix.
- Look, This is of far more use to industry, So that when the web server panics for some unknown reason, they want to know -exactly why- so they can stop it happening again, they can afford to pay for the analysis.
- This is actually quite important for the future of Linux in the commercial sector. I would bet the HP, Sun, MS et.al have used this as an small argument when 'competing' against Linus for large and prestigue orders.
Decent speech recognition, would be my ideal data-entry solution for PDA's.
Having a full keyboard would be nice second choice, but the way I use my pilot it would only make a small difference (graffiti is good enough). I tend to load large datasets to my pilot from my PC for on-the-road reference, and I don't have a need to enter lots of info when away from my desktop. But I would like to enter data n awkard situations, on trains, busses, while walking round town and especially in bars/clubs. A keyboard, no matter how cool and well designed, is probably never going to be convenient in those situations.
For my last year at Reading Uni.Prof. Warwick was my head of Department. And a very nice bloke he is too.
Lots of cool things come out of that department (I just wish I was one of them) and He does a lot to promote the more forward-looking side of Engineering and Sience in general.
So for all of you looseres making sarky comments, consider the fact that this guy pushes the limits far more than you ever have. And is not afraid to bring this sort of research into the public arena for all to see.
Oh yeah, he also is the reason why I have a degree in Cybernetics, instead of 'yet another computer science' degree.
At my old site we used a name like:
[2 char site id][1 char subnet][low order IP]
Therefore my old system was 'bah123', e.g. Basingstoke, subnet h, 123, or [x].[x].8.123
With a lot of machines this worked really well, you can always get the IP from the name, and the names are short and reasonably easy to remember/infer, better than 'xxfgsun5y3ffghy', etc.. It looks professional enough to keep the Pointy Heads happy.
Ok, it's still boring, but at least it works.
Of course at my new company we use cartoon characters, my hpux box is called 'druuna'. Cludos to anyone who gets this, and understands why I smile everytime I play with her..
Grin ;-)
People in the advertising trade -really- hate this kind of talk. Especially in the States, where it probably comes under the heading of 'Un-American activities'.
It's an excellent way to start a flame war with admen, make a statement like 'Advertising only works on the gullible and stupid', cover yer ass and stand well back.
Actually I brought a packed of grape-nuts the last time I was in the States, because the advert reminded me how good they are.
There is a nice little personal-proxy utility from Siemens, it's free for personal use, and does a good job of cutting the ads completely.
It can also remove referring-page info, etc.. and is very easy to setup and use, windows only unfortunately.
Have a look at: http://www.siemens.de/servers/wwash
If you write for slashdot I guess getting Flamed is par for the course ;)
Widescreen TV is 'super lekker' (jolly good, in Dutch), but what I would like is widescreen monitors (or maybe tallscreen?)
I heard talk about this a few years back, but have never seen anything like this since then except in a publishing house (on SGI I think). At the moment my only option to get documents up side by side is to run at eye crunching resolutions, or get a twin-head setup and buy a new desk.
Actually what I really want is a 180 degree wraparound high-res monitor, with me in a delux swivel chair in the middle. So I can play at being the badguy from a Bond movie, 'So Mr. Gates, you thought you could defeat me! MuHaHaHa..'
Thank goodness for that, I thought I was cracking up for a minute there! They must have put something in my coffee.
If they're travelling under command of UN/NATO then no, frequencies for joint operations are well defined, and french equip is designed for it.
If on their own, they may have a problem, better fill the Greenpeace ships with Ibooks.
Well, yes/no
The French have always been awkward abour RF, maritime radio is a good example. Try talking to French coastguard in anything other than French and see what happens (to their credit, in a mayday their English suddenly becomes perfect.) It used to be illegal to even transmit in any other language than French.
I worked on a Radio system that had to work cross-channel (used in the tunnel), there were several major frequency allocation problems. And some fundamental differences, for instance in dual channel full duplex they use an inverted scheme, relative with the rest of Europe.
Also they have not adopted the open(ish) TETRA standard (used for trunked radio services, fire/police/airport control, etc..) Instead they have Tetrapol, designed to protect Matra from competition from Nickia/Motorola/Ericcson etc..
Basically it is all controlled by the French PTT, which is a vast, bloated, protectionist, beaurocratic Dinasaur. With it's brains in it's tail.
To their credit, they did adopt GSM, It probably slipped through when they were looking the other way or something.
I once saw a program about standards evolution that talked about track gauges. They reconed that you can trace the standard European gauge back to the roman standard for chariots(enforced by roman law).
Basically it worked, so nobody ever changed it, and every new technology simply inherited it to ensure some compatibility. Sounds like ASCII to me.. if it aint broke, don't fix it. Unless you're M$oft.
If your only concept of a tripwire is something that emails or pages the admin then these critisims are true. ;-)' or 'record IP and email FBI'. An old Vax I worked on locked any account which exceeded a certain number of failed logins. Easy to DOS but hard to get at the bosses email by just spotting bits of his password..
But trapdors can be more proactive than that, how about, 'more than 128 ports scanned - open the silo doors
I -like- the idea of a passport service to save me lots of dumb-ass repetative typing. But this is a function for a non-profit org . There is no bloody way I will give that info to MS or it's ilk. They simply cannot be trusted for the full term, whatever promises they will make today.
Years ago I wrote an Aegis (remember that anyone ;) utility to count which keys I pressed and when..
Was shocked to discover that 1/5th were never pressed at all.
Anyone ever tried this with a modern U*nix or Windoze box. I bet even the 'I have 1024 key bindings and use em all' brigade actually don't use the whole keyboard.
EeeZee
Years ago I wrote an Aegis (remember that anyone ;) utility to count which keys I pressed and when..
Was shocked to discover that 1/5th were never pressed at all.
Anyone ever tried this with a modern U*nix or Windoze box. I bet even the 'I have 1024 key bindings and use em all' brigade actually don't use the whole keyboard.
Funny.. I was just thinking it looks fascist.
I is the best, but really hard (and counter-intuitive) but looks a bit dated and (still) has bugs, also I think it has problems on very high end machines.e x.html
II is still good, but a bit simplistic (they overcompensated).
But III should be out now, or very soon..
see:
http://www.demon.lspace.org/games/discworld/ind
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If you hate ads, especially banner ads, try webwasher, it ain't perfect, but it's free and it sure helps.
http://www.siemens.de/servers/wwash/wwash_us.htm
This and 'The Bat' (email client) are the only two bits of windoze S/W I've ever really wished I could get on HPUX..
On another tack, it's easy to change names in the UK, I wonder if I could get paid (per day) to changed my name to 'Eat at MacDonalds', think about it... there are a lot of 'hits' for a name, and admen like 'hits'.